Filmmaking

Looking Forward to Hindsight

How do you make sense of your life when other people are listening? One of the fun/exciting/deeply challenging parts of being a...

I'd Like to Thank The Academy (Museum)

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Oscars I would be lying if I said that I never thought about winning an Academy Award....

“The awful thing about life is this…”

Film school and California culture were a shock to my system. My first semester in the SF State Cinema Department was thrilling. Moving...

Art Imitates Life, or Vice-versa

Memories of teenage movie making and its consequences. The sickening crunch of glass and plastic replays in my head as I step onto the...

1968: A Personal Odyssey

How astronauts real and fictitious launched my life and career. The year 1968 has a lot of… history. It was a pivotal, dramatic year in...

Our Lady of Exalted Exhibition

Religious experiences come in many places. Going to the movies was my church. The year that I arrived in San Francisco, one of its most...

Arrivederci, Hollywood

It's time for a career reboot. I moved to California to go to film school and never looked back. (I did make the curious choice of moving...

Room for Collaboration

As a producer-director who struggles a bit with screenwriting, I envy those writing rooms on series television. The writing is often so...

Making the Most of Quarantine

After a relatively busy year in 2019, it was doubly frustrating (professionally speaking) to face 2020 in lockdown and video chats...

The Story is Still Being Written

Michael McCartney is a lucky man and he knows it. An actor, director and instructor (at the New York Film Academy), Michael wrote and...